Manufacturing Employees

Mrs. Beckett
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many jobs in manufacturing were lost between (a) the first quarter of 1974 and the second quarter of 1979 and (b) the second quarter of 1979 and the present day. [7032]

Mrs. Angela Knight
[holding answer 19 December 1995]: The information requested is set out in the table:-------------------------------------------------------------
|                                                           |
-------------------------------------------------------------
|Standard Industrial Classification 1980 Divisions 2,3 and 4|
-------------------------------------------------------------
|Standard Industrial Classification 1992 Section D          |
-------------------------------------------------------------

Source:

CSO.